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![]() ![]() Once there I could see all of her files and quickly copy them over into the appropriate folder on her new MacBook. I had to make sure her My Documents directory on the Windows XP machine were shared. I also needed to specify the user name and work group for her WGP is the name of the Windows workgroup her machine is in, Allison is her login name on the machine and Bethany is the name of the machine. Connecting to it was as simple as popping into the Finder and selecting Go / Connect to Server, then entering the SMB address for her old laptop. ![]() The next step involved getting her files over from her Windows XP machine. This upgrade ended up requiring several reboots and also involved several Firmware updates as well. As it was it only took about 10 minutes to pull everything down. I killed the Airport and plugged the MacBook directly into a router port so that it would download everything more quickly. Once the upgrade from DVD was done I ran Software Update on it and it identified 14 updates for various products and over 800MB of data to download. All in it actually took about an hour and a half to get the machine upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. The fans on that little MacBook worked overtime, generating a lot of noise-though very little heat-during the upgrade. After about 25 minutes of checking the actual upgrade started, with estimates of over 1 hour and 50 minutes to complete. I let it perform the consistency check on the DVD so that added a lot of time to the upgrade. Apple did provide an upgrade DVD which I promptly placed in the machine and started the upgrade process to Leopard. The unfortunate part was that this particular MacBook came with Tiger installed. It quickly saw and attached to my wireless network and after a few minutes I was sitting at the OS X desktop. I pulled out the machine, fired it up and started to go through the registration process. There were no marks and it appeared like a brand new machine, though it cost quite a bit less than a new one at $949. The machine inside however looked completely flawless. After a 1 day delay because I left the house for 15 minutes yesterday and that happened to be the window for the FedEx Ground guy, I had to wait an extra day to actually get my wife's new MacBook in hand.Īs you can see from the picture below, Allison's refurbished MacBook came in a rather nondescript cardboard box, a far cry from the slick version you get when you buy new. I've gotten to the point where I can distinguish between UPS and FedEx by the squeal their brakes make. ![]() Ah, the sound of a delivery truck in front of the house is always a welcome sound for a gear-head like me. ![]()
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